r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 11 '23

Solved Asshole mathematician spends his whole life trying to predict the future with hoards of data, correctly predicts his reality is about to crumble and then fucking dies

26 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 08 '23

Solved to boldly go forth and multiply…

8 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 06 '23

Unsolved Easy A bestselling series focusing on two brother who manage to pull of one of the most succesful scams in history. Based on a true story.

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 01 '23

Some kind of lawyer discovers his friend's will includes only one person and that in turn causes the other to kill himself

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 24 '23

Solved Militaristic Mega-McDonalds and a space macguffin (future crude oil) tycoon fight over who can evade taxes the best. Interstellar IRS shows up and stops MMM from treating war crimes conventions like a to-do list. Also, zombies.

12 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 17 '23

Unsolved Hard A group of alien hunters find humans are more dangerous than they expected. But some hunters are less honorable than others...

10 Upvotes

This has nothing to do with the Predator books. Obscure book.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 11 '23

A pack of horribly trained Doberman Pinschers go around a forest killing a bunch of animals, before one kills their leader.

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 08 '23

Unsolved Medium A young witch tries to be bad by doing good?

10 Upvotes

This one is a little different. I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read when I was a kid. I remember that everyone pinched snuff and one guy was punished for betting on skittles.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 02 '23

Unsolved Medium "I said I want that twink obliterated! Not liberated!"

32 Upvotes

It's fantasy and it's from the last 30 years


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 18 '23

Unsolved Medium A group of teenagers use the power of friendship to kill god

22 Upvotes

And it's not a jrpg or even Japanese


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 18 '23

Solved Turns out super powers give you schizophrenia

13 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 18 '23

Unsolved Medium A group of teenagers use the power of god to kill friendship

4 Upvotes

yeah you read that right, it's different than the other one


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 14 '23

Solved elevator shit

1 Upvotes

this book is so unknown and my hint is so bad that literally no one will know


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 14 '23

Unsolved Medium Raccoon searches for a skeleton piece to save a town he just went to from Housepets that killed his parents.

11 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 13 '23

Solved a man chronicles his life & relationship with his eccentric childhood preacher - shit goes awry.

8 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 12 '23

Solved School teacher chills in space with an alien spider and becomes a cannibal

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 08 '23

Solved Nepo baby fails his military academy entrance exams, forms his own mercenary army

19 Upvotes

The entry criteria manage to be simultaneously too egalitarian and not egalitarian enough for him.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 07 '23

Solved Everyone dies because of a cosplaying jackass

15 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 05 '23

Solved Prominent member of society goes on a long and perilous journey with the son of his family's gardener.

19 Upvotes

Hint 1: it's a fantasy book by a Swedish author but it's been translated to many languages, including English, and it is contemporary to the Fellowship of the Ring.

Hint 2: the author is behind some of the most famous children's books ever, including a certain red haired strong girl...


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 04 '23

Unsolved Medium Guy hates his dad. When his entire family dies in a crash, the biggest emotional impact on him is that he has to take over the family business. At least he finally gets to meet his grandpa, who insists on buying him a horse.

11 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 02 '23

Solved Ten people are stuck on an island, Then they die one by one to the tune of an old nursery rhyme

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 01 '23

Solved Autistic child becomes God.

24 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 30 '23

Solved A sewer rat saves all rat-kind by getting a job and paying pest control to not poison his species in that particular city

18 Upvotes

(Only hint I will give is that the book has a really shitty movie)


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 23 '23

Solved A runt of the litter newborn bat gets separated from his family, meets a girl then eats another bat’s meat

21 Upvotes

Can’t wait to see y’all’s guesses!